Pulseaudio on xenial pup?

[idontregister]

Any recipe exist for xenial pup to support Firefox 52 and pulse?

[watchdog]

For xenialpup 32 bit:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 259#969259

The apulse solution also works for xenialpup64:

http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks/apulse-0.1.10-x86_64.pet

The main thread for troubleshooting firefox and sound issues should be:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=109902

[hikohan]

setup packages from manager

#1 update repos

#2 add:
pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-x11 paman pavucontrol pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-utils

make sure all success installed, append startup script

"pulseaudio &"

works fine with Firefox 58, no more annoying tips on flash playing.

my blogged:
https://vegalou.blogspot.tw/2018/05/pup ... sound.html

[bigpup]

Just have the apulse 0.1.11 from here installed. Nothing else.
Make sure to use the correct bit version.
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks/
Reboot after you install it to make sure it is saved and loaded at the correct place.

That shuold be all you need for Firefox 52.

You will also need this if using Firefox 57 or newer:

/root/.mozilla/firefox
Look for a directory that ends in .default

Put the user.js file in that directory.

Use Geany to make this user.js file.
This is what needs to be in it.
watchdog's code

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// for using apulse with latest firefox
user_pref("security.sandbox.content.write_path_whitelist", "/dev/snd/");
user_pref("security.sandbox.content.syscall_whitelist", "/dev/snd/");
user_pref("security.sandbox.content.read_path_whitelist", "/dev/snd/");

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Build 58 requires user_pref("security.sandbox.content.syscall_whitelist", "/dev/snd/"); to be set to "16" now instead of /dev/snd/, so am currently using

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// for using apulse with latest firefox
user_pref("security.sandbox.content.write_path_whitelist", "/dev/snd/");
user_pref("security.sandbox.content.syscall_whitelist", "16");
user_pref("security.sandbox.content.read_path_whitelist", "/dev/snd/");

Firefox and sound seems to be a moving target.
Each version of Firefox wants something different for sound.

[rufwoof]

I downloaded firefox quantum (59.0.2 64 bit) and just extracted it. With Oscar's apulse also installed I have just

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user_pref("security.sandbox.content.write_path_whitelist", "/dev/snd/");

in my user.js and youtube video's etc play sound fine.

I wonder if those extra user.js lines are required when running firefox as root? I run firefox inside a EasyOS Pyro 0.9 container, running it as restricted user "rover" (and where root is pretty crippled i.e. /sbin, /usr/sbin etc. all chmod'd to 000 along with PID 1 being set to /bin/sh (so even a breakout from a sandboxed firefox session drops into a restricted userid and even if elevation to root could be achieved from that then root is pretty much useless as well (so difficult to break out of the EasyOS Pyro container)). Conceptually still open to Spectre/Meltdown type attacks, but with firefox having adjusted timer precision down from 5 microseconds to 20 microseconds that makes javascript speculative processing hacks more likely to be unsuccessful.

[watchdog]

Tested firefox 59.0.3 in xenialpup 7.5 32 bit using apulse by OscarTalks version 0.1.11 with a wrapper script apulse. Sound working with these settings in "about:config" (search sandbox) or prefs.js:

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user_pref("security.sandbox.content.write_path_whitelist", "/dev/snd/");
user_pref("security.sandbox.content.syscall_whitelist", "54");
user_pref("security.sandbox.content.read_path_whitelist", "/dev/snd/");

Note that the security.sandbox.content.level is at 3 by default (do not touch it):

user_pref("security.sandbox.content.level", 3);

I would recommend to use the user.js trick only in a new fresh profile because I have experimented conflicting settings between prefs.js and user.js. The best way could be to set the values using "about:config" and restart firefox.

EDIT: as reported by bigpup for 64 bit pups use:

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user_pref("security.sandbox.content.syscall_whitelist", "16");

[OscarTalks]

Folks may wish to try writing the custom settings into a system file eg:-
/usr/lib/firefox/browser/default/preferences/firefox.js
Starting the lines with "pref" not "user_pref"
Create directories and file if necessary.
This defines defaults from first run
No need to do anything manually in the profile.
I have tried to write about this in the HOW TO section here:-
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=113312